Hello again! If you’re reading this along with how I’ve wrote it, there’s been a pause! It may seem like I’ve given up on daily blogs, but fear not! I was just away from home for 3 days and now I am back. This post will be the story explaining why.

My blog shows the date that a post is published, but not the time. Usually during the summer, I like to stay up really late and enjoy all nighters, as that is something nearly impossible for me to do during the school year, at least without repercussions that I don’t want to deal with. But during the summer, because I don’t have as much to do, I can be free to stay up until 3, 4, or 5 o’clock every day and then wake up at noon. Is it smart? Probably not. Do I enjoy it? Very much so.

So this story begins on Monday, July 6th. I woke up in the afternoon, ready for another great day of my summer where I relax and stay up all night. It’s a peaceful life. At around 3:00 the next day, I start to realize that I am oddly not tired. Usually when I pull an all nighter, no matter how long it has been since I’ve awoken, I start to feel tired as the morning starts. So, not feeling anything at all was interesting. My assumption was that I’d eventually get tired, though; by 5 or 6:00, I realized that this wasn’t going to happen. Not that I minded, as usually the more “insomnia-like” days of my life are fun ones. Later that morning, at about 10:00, I’m talking with my mom, and I say that it would be nice to do something interesting today. My mom suggests we tour a college, and I say yes. After a small bit of planning, we leave to tour Seton Hall in New Jersey. It was a very nice school. On the way there, we also ended up expanding our plans to tour colleges for two more days, with Princeton and Villanova set for the next day, and Columbia the following one.

Now for why this had affected the daily blog posts is simple: each day, by the time I had gotten home, I was a bit drained, and went to bed shortly after. Funnily enough, for a blog post that starts with me talking on how I like all nighters, the posts got delayed because I went to bed early. Technically, by my definition of “daily blog posts,” this was OK for one of the days, as my “insomnia-like” 30-hour long day included post #11, which was a fun one to write. But for the next day and the one after, I had missed a post. This isn’t much of an issue, as I can just write more and make up for it. Daily blog posts are less a requirement to me as they are a guideline for how many I’d like to write. And that’s why this is part one of a triple header for writing blog posts. I’m coming up with the ideas for them as I write, so I have no idea what is coming next, but please enjoy those posts too, and thank you for reading this one. Have a fantastic rest of your day.